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Chapter 20: Negotiation
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2024-10-29 19:42:56After the life-threatening occurrence last night, I stayed in the hospital and William brought me some clothes when he saw how drenched I was with Hansel’s blood. We stayed over in the hospital until the dawn came, and William had ordered some of his men to guard Hansel because we wouldn’t be around to keep an eye on him. We’d come up with an idea to visit the jail to talk things out with Dmitri because he was the only person we knew that could give us information about what happened last night. Knowing he was the only closest person to the Houstons, he probably knows why they wanted to take Mom or why they wanted us to be killed.
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